Introduce Yourself!

Zascar

This is done on plenty of other forums and works really well, but as long as I've been on here I don't think its ever been done. Many of us regulars have been having banter for years but we actually know very little about what's behind the usernames! I'm also seeing a lot of very new faces contributing loads which is really great. This forum has been pretty dull for a good while but tis getting a lot more interesting these days, so lets kick it up a step and get to know eachother a bit better too.

Lets use this thread to post up a little intro about oursevles, but lads don't just say "Hi My Names Jimmy and I like music bla bla bla', actually tell us something interesting! A bit about yourself, where you're from, what you do etc. A bit about your music tastes etc and any other random non-music related stuff...

Might sticky this if it works too...

DarkJager

Good idea for a thread man! I'm John, live in Limerick and have been mad into electronic for about 10 years now. Also have a great love for all things hip hop & rap. My current obsession is Trance, I just love it. Mainly Anjunabeats at the moment but anything with a good breakdown/melody will end up on repeat at some stage Used to be big into house but that sort of faded as I discovered the real side of trance. I'm working as a Network Admin at present (are all dj's techies I wonder? )

I DJ as well, more house parties than clubs, and also like to produce a few tracks under the alias of Semtex. Just recently got a Stanton DFX unit and having some very interesting results playing around with it and morphing my tunes. I honestly cannot think of a better way to spend free time than dj'ing. From something as simple as just listening to some vinyls, to the craic to be had dj'ing at house parties full of friends - I love everything about it.

So yeah thats me

tman

Nice idea for a thread

I'm Tom, I DJ under the names Tom Payne, Chad Groover and more recently "Teaser". Chances are you haven't heard of any of them:p
In the process of moving from Galway to London, so have had to store my decks indefinitely. Might take the chance to finally get to grips with Ableton or get stuck into Traktor until I can get them shipped over, or might just give up DJing altogether. (tis in my blood at this stage so can't see that happening really!)

My main style is hard nrg/hard house, but play a lot of house, techno and electro as well, along with a smattering of D&B (hence the aliases)
Have made a couple of attempts at producing, but they usually end up pretty badly. Gonna try to get stuck into Logic at some stage, maybe take a course in it if I can find a suitable one...

engrish?

Herro my name is engrish! Really its Mike, I'm from Dublin. Music has always been a massive part of my life. I was in and out of bands in college and eventually tried it on my own to no great success. I went clubbing allot when I was in college but rock music was what i mostly listened to. While dance & trance were always in my cd collection its only in recent years that I have become an addict. I say addict because it is an addiction, finding new tracks and the excitment you feel either on the way home from a cd shop or while waiting for an album to finish downloading.

I have just started mixing on my laptop using virtual dj and I love it. I have been fantasising about vinyl decks for a while but I want to make sure I love it as much as I think I do before spending so much money!

Nice to meet you all.

Oh finally, I have no understanding of genres yet, please tollerate my ignorance for a while!

Scubadevils

Howdy, my name is David... 32 years old as of October. I work in Consumer Electronics and have done in various shapes and forms since I was about 15. I love electronics and collect needless gadgets. I am married with 2 kids, one boy aged 9 months and a 4 year old daughter.

I have been hugely into music since as far back as I can remember. I remember pleading with my mother to put on records for me in our first house which we left when I was four so thats about the furthest memory I have of my passion for music starting - my mother is also crazy about music so I heard it constantly growing up.

I bought my Technics 1210's when I was about 17 but had been collecting vinyl and CD's for several years before that. Used to play them non-stop back then and made countless demo tapes with the good intention of sending them on somewhere but never happened due to my constant desire to make a completely flawless mix without one tiny error! Played numerous parties over the years of varying sizes. Been at least 3 years now I reckon since I played a party, kids tend to do that though!

I love a wide range of electronic music from ambient up to techno. I would say I am definitely addicted to getting more and more music as my credit card constantly gets abused with non-stop CD buying every month! I buy huge varieties of genres but currently mainly dub techno, detroit techno, ambient & IDM - oldskool (various genres) always has a large place in my heart too so always on the lookout for CD's & vinyl that I have missed from over the years.

I plan to buy a set of CD decks as my vinyl buying has dropped off a huge amount over the last few years and I have lots of CD's I would love to get stuck into mixing. Maybe then I will finally make an attempt at playing a venue somewhere, only been 15 years practicing! :pac:

Oh and I just treated myself today to a new iMac as my last one finally died on Monday - RIP, you served me well for the last 4 years! But onwards and upwards, this new one is a lot faster :pac: (hope I can pay for it now).

Jev/N

Hey, my name is Jev, I'm 22, from Roscommon but live in Dublin... not working as I'm still in college studying in my 4th year now.

Started djing/messing around on 1210s when I was about 14 because my brother was a DJ and he'd brought the decks home from Dublin...started playing his house, techno & breaks vinyl first of all. Started listening to trance, house and breaks then myself and got myself a set of KAM belt-drive decks.

Made the move to CDs when i got to college and started playing more house, electro-house and techno. Got a couple of gigs from the Ents office and progressed from there in college. Also started to go to various nights in town and help promote where I could which helped in getting gigs.

Bought Serato a couple of years ago and consider it the best choice I ever made. Also got a Soundbite Pro sampler and looper recently to try and add something extra to my sets but with college at the moment, it's hard finding time to play. Had a residency with Bodytonic for awhile and have played a couple of other nights around Dublin. Playing a fairly varied style of music now, everything from electro house, baltimore, old skool, jackin' house and dubstep.

That's about it really, haven't got into production yet, i've edited and remixed a couple of tracks in ableton but nothing too difficult so far!

jonny68

Name is Jonny and im 37:o yes one of the older dudes on the scene,from Cabra/Smithfield im not married and don't really have any intention of doing so, have a bird who likes dance music but typical bird doesn't really know much about tunes/genres,,etc,etc but i teach her :pac:, i work in credit management but am unfortunately only temping at the moment due to the poxy recession.

Basically ive still got a bit of an obsession about Dance music, the whole Rave scene has always been an integral part of my life now since the late 1980's when i first seen ravers in the UK on the news,etc in conveys of cars and vans on the motorway en route to an Acid House party, i was absolutely fascinated by this and started listening to Acid House music which completely blew me away like no other music did before, i attented my first Rave in 1990, an illagal warehouse Rave in London and took my first Ecstasy tablet and never experienced anything like it and probably never will again, and that began my obsession with the Rave scene, i got massively into the Madchester scene, Acid House and Bleep, wore flares, hoody tops and spoke of peace,love and unity basically i just got more and more into the whole scene and for a long time i literally lost interest in anything else i was into like football,birds and beer, typical lads things, in fact for a long time i barely drank alcohol, the only thing i was interested was Rave music and the Rave scene, it wasn't just the music it was a whole lifestyle thing from the clothes you wore,etc,etc,i got decks in 1994 and played and collected vinyl for years but never took it as seriously as others as first and foremost i was a raver, as the years went on i started taking more and more drugs and drinking again but that was part of the whole scene (well for me it was:o)towards the end of the 1990's my drug consumption really spiralled out of control (as regards E's, Coke (lots), Speed and Hash, and drinking) and i found myself not being able to go anywhere without having to get absolutely wasted beyond belief and i just going clubbing for the sake of it and was so fuc*ed i wasn't even bothered about the music anymore , so i after years upon years taking E's week in week out knocked the sh*t on the head for about 10 months and it was a very difficult time, and my passion for the scene died a bit, but after some serious detoxing and reflection i started again getting back into the scene dramitically cutting down on my narcotic intake.

Old Skool Dance music in all it's forms but especially House from 1987-1995 is my first love, for me this music was groundbreaking and uplifting to the max, Rave/Hardcore is absolutely groundbreaking music and ive never to this day seen a crowd go as mental as i have at raves where they played Rave/Hardcore,without wanting to sound big headed but im one of the most musically diverse people in know especially when it comes to dance music,i like so many different genres from Ambient to Hardcore, in fact i rarely stick to playing the one style of music, for me it's predictable and boring, mix and blend many different styles together, ive been known to fuse together Hardcore/Techno/House/Trance/Jungle/Bleep/Acid in the one set!

Now in 2008 and im still big into the whole scene although it takes it out of me big time now and long gone are the 5 day benders, after a nite out clubbing it takes me ages to recover, i rarely take any narcotics thesedays (mostly garbage anyway) on the occasion i do it's really only MDMA Crystal im interested in or good coke (impossible to get in Dublin for the most part), im more of a drinker thesedays, music wise thesedays it's all about Funky/Disco/Soulful House,USA Garage,Ambient also Drum & Bass, Hardcore Breaks, some Psy Trance and some Techno (European), i cant ever see myself losing interest in dance music and it is so ingrained in me, probably not half as much as it was in the 1990's but im still well on it when it comes to the scene and i would probably be somewhat of a dance music encloypedia (or anorak as some might say:o:D)

ehhhh that's it i think, sorry for going on:)

NotInventedHere

My name is Tommo.I'm 37.Got into dance music in the early nineties. Drifted out of the scene from about 98 until this year when I bought on a whim Traktor 3 and a bcd 3000. I have played a load of parties since and i am finding that after a long hiatus a lot of people my age are getting back into dance music. I am currently planning on starting my own night. I expect it to happen around February/March. Watch this space. I love techno, minimal and TEch House.


My latest mix is here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055213891&page=11

Have a listen,

Cheers,

Tommo

EvolutionNights

Hello. My name is Barry. I was born 37 years ago in Dublin and have been here all my life. Married 6 years to a top lady from Leitrim. I’ve been working in graphic design for the past 14 years. Trained as a jazz drummer and played drums in various bands in the 90’s until an accident at work rendered my right wrist useless. Got into dance music after seeing Plastikman in Glastonbury in 1995. Discovered Psytrance about 8 years ago at a party in Bristol with the legendary Tribe of Frog. Started DJing under the name Zini about 3 years ago with the Neutronyx crew. Mainly I play progressive psytrance but have been know to delve into a bit of psychedelic dub from time to time. Last year I set up Evolution with a friend of mine. We promote progressve parties in Dublin. We have a monthly residence in Radio City. Hoping to get into production next year if I ever get my laptop sorted.

joker77

Hi

My name is Neal and I'm from Ballinteer in Dublin. I think I originally got into the music when I heard the Prodigy / SL2 at the age of 13/14. Tracks like 'Everybody in the Place' and 'On a Ragga Tip' were like nothing I'd heard before. I had been into The Doors / Nirvana up until this, but all that took a back seat big time, and I couldn't get enough of the Prodigy. I was in Irish College in Kerry during the summer of 93, and when the Prodigy played in the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney I had to go. I rang a girl I was in Irish College with, basically invited myself down to stay with her for 2 nights, ok'd it with the folks and off I went! After that I saw them that September in the Tivoli, then all the New Years gigs which were unreal for the first 3 years (think the first one was Dec 27th though). A friend from primary school who I'd fallen out with became friends again through our interest in the 'rave' music. We both got into it big time, and headed off to a rave somewhere down the country, Mullingar I think in Hallowe'en '93! Crazy stuff considering we were only 16, but my Da picked me up from the Abra on O'Connell bridge that night @ 3am or whatever it was. We weren't doing drugs at this stage, all that was to come later.....

From here we both got a set of decks, and started messing around. We were into all kinds of genres - mostly jungle at first, but I think my first serious 12" purchase was Energy Rush by the Sound Crowd. Started collecting all the Red Records, and went to see them in the SFX. Mad night - myself and my mate had discovered acid so we were on blue planets that night, hadn't touched a pill yet, and it was a surreal experience when the night finished - all the lights came on and the whole crowd starting SINGING 6th season and kept dancing with no music for about 10 minutes! As I say, as a 16 year old on acid seeing all these crazy heads with no tops on singing away was surreal.

Soon after that, needless to say, we got into the pills, and over the next few years had some great nights - mostly at house parties, sometimes in clubs, sometimes in the Point (The Prodigy) or the SFX (Moby), sometimes in fields, but it was ALWAYS about the music firstly. We were real nerds for a few years, went to Ballyfermot study sound engineering, did a year PLC but realised it would be difficult to make a career out of it, so went for the easier money option of computer programming.

Over the years house + techno music has always been with me, and always will be. House is a feeling, and as Eddie Amador put it - it's a soul thing, a spiritual thing - not everyone understands house music.

Since I moved into my most recent place, about 1 and a half years ago, the turntables have been box away. If we had the space we'd have a music room, but in a rented 1 bed with 2 people... eh....

Recently I've gotten into the digital aspect of DJing - I've posted my first mix up here if anyone wants a listen, it has some of my favourite music over the last couple of years

jtsuited

I'm Jeff and am a producer (under the name Kid Handsome).

I've had a few releases out and the next few months are mega-busy with releases on a sublabel of a very big label (Harthouse).
My last record out got support from Hernan Cattaneo and 16 bit Lolitas.

I've been playing a few livesets recently in Spy, RiRa and the Pod (where I'm playing next month again).

Got a bookings manager just recently, and start my international bookings in the new year (lots of flyin ryanair!).

i think that's it.

francois

Hi Francois here-yes it is my real name, I'm half french, but was born here. I'm 42 (probably the grandad of this board!) I just got married-6 weeks ago!- and I work as an IT manager.
I used to be a full time DJ, ran my own club for about 8 years starting in 1990 in UCD, before moving onto the Gardening Club and finally Columbia Mills on the quays. I got in to Electronic music as a kid in the 70's with bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream as well as the electronic post punk stuff like Fad Gadget, The Normal and Throbbing Gristle, so house and techno were a progression.
Started djing in 1986 as the Anarchy Night Cafe then started a regular friday night in UCD, -I DJ-ed with Mick Heaney who played mainly indie, funk and sixties, he graciously saw that the rave element was becoming big, so he left and I asked Louise Mahon and John Collins to co-promote. Did loads of gigs all over the place for the next few years.
I started in IT in 97 after my club, The UFO ( a name we knicked from the 60's club run by Pink Floyd, it stood for Unlimited Freak Out) came to an end. Now I do the occasional Old skool/charity/party for fun-I still mess on my 1210's at home, and hunt for occasional classics on Ebay.
I still collect vinyl, I have always been into the harder edge of sound-whether hardcore punk, 60's garage or punding techno. I was so lucky to have been able to ride the crest of dance music's wave, a white knuckle ride at times, and sometimes my memory is a bit hazy from then ( for obvious reasons ) but I would glady go back and relive those amazing times without a moments hesitation

I guess the handle gives away the name and the year I was born. Youngest of 7 kids, so was exposed to just about everything growing up from the Who to Janis Joplin to Bo Diddley to Ry Cooder to the Stones. One sister was into New Romantic and New Wave and guess I heard those more than most, so was into the likes of Simple Minds and Depeche Mode and other bands with a dance/electronic sound. The house music came along and that was that. Loved MARRS and Chad Jackson and Inner City and just about anything that got into the charts, but the tune that really did it was 808 State's 'Pacific'. Live in Kerry so gotta admit the whole production and djing thing goes over my head (hence my reliance on Top of the Pops until I left home), didn't exactly have a big dance scene in rural South Kerry so couldn't spend all day hanging around some record store. Went to UCC during the heady days of Henrys, 92, 93 etc. and loved it. I like most genres, might avoid particularly cheesy trance or heavy drum n bass though.

Betty Ford

Hi my names betty. I like long walks on the beach and RObbie Hawkins is my favourite DJ.

Daroxtar

Hi, my name is steve. I'm 32. I'm originally from sligo but living in meath. I'm a chippy workin mostly in the sandyford/ leopardstown area at the mo. I got married in june and have a baby on the way in march (no messin about there. i have a powerful shot!!!!!). I love me auld techno and make a huge noise whenever i can , albeit mostly in the spare room.
First Rave was Prodigy in the TF in castlebar , valentines weekend '94. 4th dimension were supporting them and both were savage. wasn't into pills then but that changed after about a year. Used to take trips and speed because i heard E was dangerous and addictive!!! BAD INFO IS DANGEROUS Hahaha.
First Pill was in the garden in equinox in sligo. Morgan ya bastrd, such tunes.
I spent a year in london and loved going to The End- such a crackin club. Then moved to the Hague then back to sligo then dublin then galway then dublin again for a couple of years, wasted and unsettled but lovin clubbin. Then i met the missus and stayed in dublin with her (Aaaaw, all loved up).Then we left again. And then came back again.
I dont go out so much anymore, just wait for someone i really want to see and i now take halves spread out rather than double dropping. I cant stand coke or **** on it. Go to south america and see the sh1te it causes and then tell me its clean. I still love good weed but i hate the dirty muck being brougt in full of wax, glue or whatever the fk is not weed. And whats with the prices???? Theres a bloody recession and greedy bastards are causing it. IMHO people need to batter bad dealers or at the least report them to the ombudsman. miserable fkkrs get what they deserve.
Anyhooo

I spent a year in Oz and am quite keen on travelling as if you hadn't guessed, so far this year been to thailand (again), mexico and guatemala.
Favourite place visited- Easter Island.
Favourite Films-Network or Whitnail and i.
Favourite Djs- Cox, Hawtin,Mills, Bambam, Simms
Favourite saying-Aah Wouldya go away and sh1te

Scubadevils

francois wrote: »

Hi Francois here-yes it is my real name, I'm half french, but was born here. I'm 42 (probably the grandad of this board!) I just got married-6 weeks ago!- and I work as an IT manager.
I used to be a full time DJ, ran my own club for about 8 years starting in 1990 in UCD, before moving onto the Gardening Club and finally Columbia Mills on the quays. I got in to Electronic music as a kid in the 70's with bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream as well as the electronic post punk stuff like Fad Gadget, The Normal and Throbbing Gristle, so house and techno were a progression.
Started djing in 1986 as the Anarchy Night Cafe then started a regular friday night in UCD, -I DJ-ed with Mick Heaney who played mainly indie, funk and sixties, he graciously saw that the rave element was becoming big, so he left and I asked Louise Mahon and John Collins to co-promote. Did loads of gigs all over the place for the next few years.
I started in IT in 97 after my club, The UFO ( a name we knicked from the 60's club run by Pink Floyd, it stood for Unlimited Freak Out) came to an end. Now I do the occasional Old skool/charity/party for fun-I still mess on my 1210's at home, and hunt for occasional classics on Ebay.
I still collect vinyl, I have always been into the harder edge of sound-whether hardcore punk, 60's garage or punding techno. I was so lucky to have been able to ride the crest of dance music's wave, a white knuckle ride at times, and sometimes my memory is a bit hazy from then ( for obvious reasons ) but I would glady go back and relive those amazing times without a moments hesitation

I just picked up a Mute box set from Boomkat a couple of weeks ago with lots of tracks by Fad Gadget, Non, The Normal etc... some amazing tracks, you can really here where techno got serious influence. There are 10 discs so I am still trying to get through them all, not exactly easy listening!

http://www.discogs.com/release/1025033

A bargain too at only £22 :eek:

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=37738

Fad Gadget - Rickys Hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut99KQbkIOg

RaverRo808

Names Rowan,although known by many aliases Ro,Bulletz,Clarkey but most of you will know me as RaverRo,makes me sound like bit of a knob but probably best describes me,from Cabra,but live in CLonsilla with the missus(whose 5 months pregnant!),Im 23 and work in Eircom last few years,have obsession with oldskool dance music,and the scene that went with it,all shades,the breakbeat hardcore scene in the UK,hard trance asylum stuff,piano house Oylmpic stuff,and anything retro,would have got into it all when I was very young,saw the everybody in the place video by Prodigy,only seven,was amazed,especially the dancing,taped it,and was always trying to emulate Leeroy shuffling around(still do haha,),try and make every oldskool gig on,and any dance music event thats on,but lately money and home **** has me staying at home and abit serious

stomprockin

Ok here I go, Paddy here, I am 34 from Finglas but live out in Meath now. I’m married the last 3 years and have 1 daughter who is almost 2 now. I work for a media company in Dublin the last 9 years.
I First discovered dance music from listening to pirate stations around 1990 onwards
And was addicted straight away:rolleyes:.from there on this wonderful journey brought to many clubs around Ireland and of course Dublin! From 90 to about 95 I was just flat out raving all over the city, I don’t think I need to mention all the clubs . after 1995 i had to take a long break, I felt the scene had changed so much and not to mention too many E`s every week non stop for 5 years:D only starting to put the weight back on .
I have collected a lot of vinyl over the years just as a hobby more that anything. now I pick up the odd CD every now and then. I like to think I have a good ear for dance music and maybe some day ill try my arm at producing music! When my daughter gets a bit older!! :pac:
Musical taste very from time to time, at the moment it’s a bit of ambient, techno and house. Cant really see myself listing to and other form of music till the day I die!

paddy.....

run_Forrest_run

Glenn here, 31 married with one child. Was into rave and hardcore stuff as an early teen but eventually matured into listening to the likes of Cox, Digweed etc.
One of my biggest regrets was that I didn't do something about my love for electronic music, I wish I bought a pair of decks when I was 20 along with synths, drum machines etc. I used to play drums in a band during college but to be honest I just didn't like the music we played (apparently I wasn't alone on that one;) ). I would have preferred to be in a group throwing out tunes like the Prodigy or the 4th Dimension (at the time).

Oh well, since then I've started messing around with Traktor and my BCD3000 in the spare room. I love reading about DJing etc and I've accepted the fact that I won't be securing that residency in Space anytime soon!

I don't really get out to clubs much, and when I do it's up to Dublin to join a fellow mate of mine (ozziej) and hit the clubs.

I'm into all sorts of music, from Classical to Techno, House etc...actually I hate the way there are so many genres given to electronic music, maybe I just get confused with them all :rolleyes:

I'm working in software development for 10 years now and my love for electronic music and the art of DJing is constantly uncovering new marvels for me.

jonny68

stomprockin wrote: »

Dublin! From 90 to about 95 I was just flat out raving all over the city, I don’t think I need to mention all the clubs . after 1995 i had to take a long break, I felt the scene had changed so much and not to mention too many E`s every week non stop for 5 years:D only starting to put the weight back on .
!

paddy.....

bound to have bumped into ya at some stage man, 5 years doing E's every week, i know the feeling, try close on 10 years like me, now that really does mess the auld head up:eek:;)

MikeHoncho

Im Adam, 26 from Terenure originally but living in Ballinteer a good few years now. I’ve always had a passion for Music. My old man was in a band in the 70’s / 80’s that did pretty well around Dublin and my mother was always big into her 80’s pop and disco stuff so I grew up listening to a mixture of Deep Purple and The Eurhythmics. When I started to develop my own tastes my first big passion was for Guns N Roses. Got the Appetite For Destruction album for xmas one year and that’s the first album I remember owning. Still have it at home. From there I moved into heavier rock sounds bands like Pantera, Biohazard etc. This was just a phase though and my tastes began to widen until I really wasn’t into any genre per se. Kids in school would be obsessed with who was a rocker and who was a raver. I never saw the need to be just one.

I suppose my initial introductions into electronic music came from acts like The Prodigy, Orbital, Leftfield and LFO. I started going to dance events like Cream in the point with Orbital and others. I was at 2 Creamfield’s events and was probably in the Redbox etc for every big name DJ that ever came over.

When the band I played guitar in stopped playing together I decided I wanted to try out the DJ thing for a while instead so for my 18th birthday my old man bought me one of those poxy Numark “Dj in a Box” kits. Bought a diverse range of records across lots of different genres of dance music from Techno to Progressive to Tech to Tribal to DnB. I played a few gigs in college but that was as far as it went. When I was 22 I moved to the U.S for a while and the turntables got put away and they have never been hooked up since. About 8 months ago I bought myself an M-Audio X-Ponent and am really enjoying getting back into Djing. I’m hoping to do some house parties soon but need a bit more practice first which I can’t find the time for.

Suppose im really more into the Techno side of things these days but my mind is always open to new sounds. I still listen to as much Rock as I do Dance and I don’t think il ever change.

hans aus dtschl

I'm Hans. I'm a bad person. Possibly one of the worst in the world.

I play music. My only residency right now at Electric Underground in Cork. I generally bring the house->techno side of things, Warren brings the more dubsteppy, and harder-techno (and off-the-wall) stuff and Kev Blake brings the live electronic stuff to the table.

Been on a few pirate stations, and involved in plenty one-off, nightclub, and less-than-legal shenanigans.


I'm lucky the Electric Underground lads gave me a shot with this residency, and get to play what I want, and warm up for some of my heroes. Can't complain. Second birthday next month I think, and Neil Landstrumm on Dec 26th, too. Happy times.

SmallBalls

New around these parts so just a quick howdy

Scubadevils

Hello and welcome.

As long as you are not into Deadmau5, Tiesto or Skillrex you will get along just fine. Actually there is a fine line with trance or anything oldskool also. Actually fck it, techno snobs. :pac:

Charlie Haughy

Hello.

Scubadevils

Bumping this so as to sticky... handy when new people join etc.

mordeith

Well I'm Paul, 33, married with 2 kids and living in east Cork (but originally from Limerick). Been into electronic music since I was about 15/16 and still have a deep appreication for mid 90's hardhouse from the the likes of TDV etc. Right now I listen to mainly minimal house and techno although I also like breaks and some dubstep. Also a big fan of metal with the likes of Rammstein, SOAD, Amon Amarth being favourites. I have set of belt-drive turntables which I use when I can and have played a few house parties but mostly do it for my own pleasure. More into the production side of things now and use FL Studio. Soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/subbed
Used to love clubbing but last gig was the Japanses Popstars at the Savoy about 3 years ago.

Plumpynutt

I'm Shane, 20, and I'm a student from Dublin. I've posted here the odd time before, have to start contributing more often now! I got into dance music 5 or so years ago and haven't looked back since:).

The first genre I got into was jump-up D&B, the likes of Clipz and Twisted Individual. The music was just so different it gripped me, so I started exploring backwards and discovered Jungle.

Got my first set of decks about 2 1/2 years ago, around teh time I started listening to Dubstep. Last year, I did the BTECH in DJ Techniques & Music Production down in BIFE. I learned so much, and discovered Techno in the process:D

Myself and a mate DJ under the name Dagda, and along with another mate, run a monthly night at Junior Spesh called B-Side, in the Twisted Pepper. I love doing it because we get to play a mish mash of UK Bass, Dubstep, and Techno. I would absolutely love to play a D&B set out sometime too.

I've also started to try my hand at producing, using Abelton Live. I'm still learning, but thoroughly enjoying it so far. My most recent venture has been instrumental hip hop, although I've not shown anyone yet and am still trying to get it sounding right.




TL;DR

Hi, I'm Shane :pac:

dubsbhoy

Never seeing this thread before

I'm mark, 37, exiled from dublin to wexford 5 years ago.

I was a mental hippy back in 1990 when one night drunk i stumbled into Sides DC with a few friends and came out a converted clubber. The music became an obsession and i stopped seeing money as money and every fiver was = to one record. I got big into chicago and detroit house and picked up a set a decks when i was 17.

By the end of the 90's I was sick the way the clubbing scene had gone and turned my back on it, sold all my kit and shamefully all my vinyl. Someone walked into my job about 5 years ago with a set of cdjs, i played on them for 20 minutes and got re-obsessed all over again. In the last year or so i've managed to play a few clubs and few events but i can't help feeling like an old <unt that should just leave it alone, started to lose interest again towards the end of last year until i picked up another set of technics and start to collect vinyl again............now i'm happy again.

Cheers